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Populism in Venezuela analyses the emergence, formation, reproduction and resistance to a left-wing populist project in a major world oil producer. For readers who seek to understand the historical, economical and sociological contexts that gave rise to a 38 year-old mestizo-mulato Lieutenant Colonel who stormed the presidential palace in a bloody coup d'état in 1992, subsequently returned to the same palace in 1998, but this time, as a democratically elected President, and has been in power since, this book is the right place to start. In spite of opposition attempts to oust Presi.

The political strategies used to attract Taiwanese Millennials is a puzzling topic. This article analyses the strategies the two main political parties have implemented in recent years to do so. In the literature on youth attitudes in Western democracies, politics is described as "boring," a "big turn-off," and a "killjoy." I examine to what degree these theoretical terms can help define the youth's perception of politics and I describe the youth-led demonstrations that have taken place. Using primary sources, this analysis unfolds the objectives, successes, and failures of the youth wings of two political parties founded in early 2006. The 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns are considered in relation to the theme of youth engagement. A key event in recent years was the March-April 2014 Sunflower Student Movement. The impact of this event and youth politics leading up to the 2016 presidential and legislative elections is discussed. (JCCA/GIGA)

In December 2001, Hugo Chávez and others changed Venezuela's Bolivarian revolutionary project, which consisted of replacing a corrupt and elitist constitution with a fair and popular one, into a radical one. In its early stages the project corresponded to what Gramsci called a "passive revolution." Attempts by opposition forces to crush the construction of a new populist hegemony (a coup in April 2002 and an indefinite strike in December 2002) were met with popular mobilization that reaffirmed Chávez's hegemonic project. The radical revolution consisted of social programs designed to alleviate the suffering of the poor and consolidated a new hegemonic structure among Venezuela's lower classes. The concept of "radical revolution" provides a theoretical alternative for assessing the extent to which a political project can be described as populist. En diciembre de 2001, Hugo Chávez y otros cambiaron el proyecto revolucionario bolivariano de Venezuela, que consistía en reemplazar una constitución corrupta y elitista por una justa y popular, por uno radical. En sus primeras etapas, el proyecto correspondió a lo que Gramsci definiera como una "revolución pasiva." Intentos por fuerzas de la oposición para frenar la construcción de una nueva hegemonía populista (un golpe de estado en abril de 2002 y una huelga indefinida en diciembre de 2002) se encontraron con una movilización popular que reafirmó el proyecto hegemónico de Chávez. La revolución radical consistió en programas sociales concebidos para aliviar el sufrimiento de los pobres y consolidó una nueva estructura hegemónica entre las clases inferiores de Venezuela. El concepto de "revolución radical" proporciona una alternativa teórica para evaluar la medida en que un proyecto político puede ser descrito como populista.